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WarJay77 Big Catch, Sparkle Edition (Troper Knight)

Big Catch, Sparkle Edition

29th Aug, 2019 10:58:19 AM

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Strange new editor

Stella Meredith is a new troper, so this makes me feel a bit uneasy, but their edit history so far is...weird.

On YMMV.Jack David Hopkins, they only changed some example text, but also randomly broke up an Anvillicious example so that part of it was under Unforunate Implications...unalphabetized, of course. Because of the changes made to the text, I haven't reverted this yet.
On Characters.A Bugs Life, they changed an Everythings Better With Princesses example to The Woman Wearing The Queenly Mask (again without re-alphabetizing) and deleted a Hartman Hips example for no apparent reason.
A lot of moments of them just rewriting and deleting bits of an example's text, such as on Dead Unicorn Trope, YMMV.Rugrats In Paris or YMMV.My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic. Not inherently bad, but combined with the other stuff it does make me a little wary.
They straight up re-wrote the Hartman Hips description. Like, they didn't change the meaning, but what they did there is still a pretty significant change that could use a mod revert. ...Oh, same thing on All Girls Like Ponies- not as big a change, but still a good chunk of the page arbitrarily re-written.
Deleted the Angry Birds example on Accidental Aesop and seriously cut down the Incredibles example.